USS New Jersey - The Black Dragon
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2023
- USS New Jersey (BB-62) is an Iowa-class battleship, and was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of New Jersey. Her nicknames include "The Black Dragon" and the "Big J".
During World War II, New Jersey shelled targets on Guam and Okinawa, and screened aircraft carriers conducting raids in the Marshall Islands. During the Korean War, she was involved in raids up and down the North Korean coast, after which she was decommissioned and placed into the reserve fleet, aka the "mothball fleet". She was briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent to Vietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1969. Reactivated once more in the 1980s as part of the 600-ship Navy program, New Jersey was modernized to carry missiles and recommissioned for service.
New Jersey was decommissioned for the last time in 1991 (after serving a total of 21 years in the active fleet), having earned a Navy Unit Commendation for service in Vietnam and 19 battle and campaign stars for combat operations during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Lebanese Civil War, and service in the Persian Gulf. After a brief retention in the mothball fleet, she was donated to the Home Port Alliance in Camden, New Jersey, and has served as a museum ship there since 15 October 2001.
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The only battle ship to shell an island to the point it was no longer above the water. Yep, she sunk an island!
I was a young naval officer in the late 70's-the mid 80's. Everyone was excited about even the possibilities of serving aboard a battleship.
I was in the Navy back then too. Both active and reserve. I remember the call going out for sixteen inch gunnersmates. Good luck with that!
She is going into drydock very soon for underwater maintenance. It looks like the museum has a limited number of tours of the ship while in drydock that will allow visitors to be able to tour and stand directly beneath the hull for photos.
New Jersey did not hit the destroyer Maikaze with her main battery. She engaged Maikaze with her secondary battery only.
Very Much enjoyed this! I see her all the time! she looks amazing on the Camden waterfront. Her placement there was one of the first steps in the right direction for Camden and the waterfront revitalization.
By the time of the last engagement with surface ships, the battleships' main purpose was providing protection for carrier task forces against air attack, and shore bombardment anyway.. The Iowas, with their speed, were mostly used with the fast carriers, and the older battleships did more shore bombardment.
My grandfather Richard Kenney served on her for the occupation and surrender of Japan. He never told me even one story of victory. That's what being a man is. RIP grandpa Dickie.
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Thank you sir for this and all videos
Very through and detailed.
Thank you.
Awesome video
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
Why not make a video about the USS Iowa? Aka "The Big Stick" ??
She was President Roosevelt's favorite Battleship...❤🇺🇸
The Iowa may not have a big snazzy career, but she did some very important things during WW2....
She would take President Roosevelt overseas, because she was fitted for Roosevelt to be able to travel comfortably...
JS...
Iowa has a very good career. In my opinion at least....
great
Minor point. You mentioned the directors for her main and secondary batteries, but you neglected to mention the directors for the 40mm AA batteries.
What is up with the voice /audio in this one?
I believe you are incorrect upon commissioning her sister Iowa was stationed in Maine as a potential response to the Tirpitz. New Jersey did not serve in the Atlantic during WWII.
You are incorrect. They both did at different times. New Jersey did until she was transferred to the Pacific in January 1944. The battleships official channel even has a video on this.
5"/38 caliber guns are mounts not turrets, guns are not in turrets until 8".
Is this an A.I. voice ? I hope not. Otherwise great re telling of history. Halsey was let off big time when the Japanese retired after destroying Taffy 3 and it’s escort carriers.
The biggest mistake the Japanese made in WW2. Thank God
No, that wasn’t actually a mistake, let alone their biggest mistake of the war. In case you didn’t know-the Americans sent TWO fleets to Leyte Gulf, and only one of them had been lured away. Seventh Fleet was still covering the landings.
@@bkjeong4302 with no Battleships, a few cruisers and landing craft waiting to be smashed. The carriers were all ( I’m not talking about escort carriers from Taffy 3 ) Admiral Karita ( mispeltbmaybe ) threw the biggest upset victory of the war away……. as big as the Halt order from Hitler at Dunkirk , of course not but second for sure. Then again if Rommel had talked Mussolini into Malta instead of Cairo …. All history now
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……Seventh Fleet was the fleet that had the Standard battleships from Surigao Strait, and a LOT more cruisers and destroyers. The Japanese were up against FAR more opposition than you assume.
@@bkjeong4302 they had YAMATO the scene was set, enemy had stuff all protection and they got cold feet. The tiny escort destroyer’s USS Johnson and USS Samuel B Roberts beat the IJN with their massive set of big brass balls .
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The enemy DIDN’T have “stuff all” protection because *the main body of Seventh Fleet including most of the Standard battleships and a large number of cruisers and destroyers was still there. It was only Third Fleet that was lured away, but Seventh Fleet was the American force that was actually in charge of covering the landings.* The common idea that the American landings had been left mostly uncovered is a MYTH. How many times do I have to point this out?
And the biggest factor in Kurita’s retreat were not Johnston and Samuel B. Roberts, but rather air attacks (the CVEs did actually have anti-ship weapons available, the idea they didn’t is a myth caused by the fact Taffy 3 didn’t have them loaded onto their aircraft AT THE START OF THE BATTLE, which isn’t the same as them not using anti-ship weapons period). The tin cans get far too much credit in most people’s perceptions of Samar because of Hornsfischer’s book when air attacks not only unnerved Kurita more but also inflicted most of the actual damage.
Excellent review of the most beautiful battleship, having the more menacing foredeck of a crocodile instead of an alligator.
For those who don't know, our father Noah preserved the life on Earth by building a 515 foot ship having the identical hull shape of a WWII battleship. You can see the remains of Noah's ark in Turkey. Confirmed by archeologist, Ron Wyatt, the Turkish government, amazed at the evidence, set up a visitor center with all the information verifying that this is the real deal. The flood explains everything, from the 170 legends of the flood found in cultures around the world to the concentrations of fossil fuels of coal, oil and gas providing the world's energy needs. Only the cavitation of water could gather them and separate them into their distinct deposits.
After the water subsided there was no food. The hunger pangs became fierce so GOD orchestrated the balance of nature with a carnivorous diet for man and many of the animals, fish and birds, and thus preserved all of the families of life to this day. And the internal DNA of each creature we see produced multiple varieties of each.
The USS New Jersey has nothing to do with your religious mythology, and only a religious nut job would try to hijack a comment section and turn it into their own fanatical bully pulpit. Save it for your church, or are they tired of you too?
The Armor in the Iowa class was not actually designed to stop their own 16" guns .